If you're like most of the PCMag.com audience, you like to tweak your machine and get it running just right. This might even include editing the Registry which shouldn't be done without using extreme care. Whenever you edit the Registry you run the risk of making a mistake and causing damage. You might not even remember all of the steps you took to implement a particular tweak.

RegistryRobot provides a safe interface for working with dozens of Registry settings that you cannot change through built-in Windows utilities. If you don't like the result of a tweak, you can easily undo it with RegistryRobot. This latest version, v2, adds a multitude of new tweaks including tweaks for Windows 7 and enhances the UI to make enabling and undoing tweaks easier than ever.

Getting Started

All of the Tweaks are organized into a tree of categories displayed in the left-hand pane of the program. When you select a tweak, information about it appears in the right pane: There's a title of the tweak, a description of the tweak, a list of platforms that the tweak should work on, a list of steps in the tweak, and the actions that will be taken by the step including any user input required.

Additionally, you will see the platform you are running, your user privileges, the tweak status, and the tweak visibility at the bottom of the program.

If your platform is Vista or 7, you will not be able to implement some tweaks while running as a limited user. To the right of the platform list you will see if you need administrator privileges to implement the tweak. It will say "Admin" or "Any user." At the bottom of RegistryRobot you will see your current privileges. If a tweak is labeled "Admin" and your privilege level is "Limited User" you will not be able to implement the tweak. If this is the case, you can simply close RegistryRobot and then restart it as an admin by right-clicking the RegistryRobot icon and selecting "Run as administrator." When RegistryRobot restarts you will see that your privileges are listed as "Administrator."

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